College student named police chief in Mexico

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A town near drug cartel capital Juarez, Mexico, had just one applicant for police chief after a spate of killings of public officials in drug-related violence.

So now the new chief in Guadalupe, a town of 10,000 residents near the Texas border, is 20-year-old college criminology major Marisol Valles García.

Public officials have increasingly become the targets of assassination as Mexican cartels try to tighten their grasp on the country. Just this year, 11 Mexican mayors have been slain, including the former mayor of Guadalupe, who was killed in June. In the small town, "police officers and security agents have been killed, some of them beheaded," according to the AFP.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101020/wl_yblog_upshot/college-student-named-police-chief-in-violence-plagued-mexican-town-after-no-one-else-would-apply

[Al Wilson 4 Mayor]

Isn't this an old story? I thought this girl actually fled the job after death threats and sought asylum in the US a few months ago?

[Dr. Broncenstein]

Mexico is statistically safe, or so it has been said.

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...and here's the follow up:

Source: Former Mexican police chief is in the U.S.

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 7, 2011 10:54 p.m. EST


(CNN) -- Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/07/mexico.female.police.chief/index.html





Apparently she had to visit her 8 month old child, because he was staying in the US. Why? Mexico wasn't safe enough to provide him a home.

[Al Wilson 4 Mayor]

Mexico is statistically safe, or so it has been said.

Does that mean if you live there for a year you only have a one in one hundred chance of getting shot?

Those odds aren't too bad.

[Al Wilson 4 Mayor]

...and here's the follow up:

Source: Former Mexican police chief is in the U.S.

By the CNN Wire Staff
March 7, 2011 10:54 p.m. EST


(CNN) -- Marisol Valles Garcia, the former police chief of Praxedis G. Guerrero, Mexico, who took office when she was just 20 years old, is in the United States, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN Monday.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/07/mexico.female.police.chief/index.html





Apparently she had to visit her 8 month old child, because he was staying in the US. Why? Mexico wasn't safe enough to provide him a home.

If I remember correctly she didn't just flee to see a child. She left due to death threats and the city was threatening to prosecute her for job abandonment. That's why she was seeking assylum.

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If I remember correctly she didn't just flee to see a child. She left due to death threats and the city was threatening to prosecute her for job abandonment. That's why she was seeking assylum.

Yeah, her own child (8 month old baby) lived in the US for safety. When her child got ill she left to visit him and decided never to go back because of all the death threats etc. And yeah, they consider it job abandonment, and she is seeking asylum in the US.